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Since the 1990s I have been very involved with fighting the military "don't ask don't tell" policy for gays in the military, and with First Amendment issues. Best contact is 571-334-6107 (legitimate calls; messages can be left; if not picked up retry; I don't answer when driving) Three other url's: doaskdotell.com, billboushka.com johnwboushka.com Links to my URLs are provided for legitimate content and user navigation purposes only.
My legal name is "John William Boushka" or "John W. Boushka"; my parents gave me the nickname of "Bill" based on my middle name, and this is how I am generally greeted. This is also the name for my book authorship. On the Web, you can find me as both "Bill Boushka" and "John W. Boushka"; this has been the case since the late 1990s. Sometimes I can be located as "John Boushka" without the "W." That's the identity my parents dealt me in 1943!

Tuesday, December 30, 2014

Holiday Train Show at New York Botanical Garden, one of the largest ever

I did get to the Holiday Train Show at the New York
Botanical Garden (link ), which is next to the Bronx Zoo, literally at the northernmost part of that
borough. I had thought this was in
Brooklyn, before I checked the ticket.

I would indeed get a "bonus tour" getting there.

I had taken Acela in the morning, and walked over to get the
B Train on 6th Avenue (Herald Square). At the 145th Street Station, in
Harlem, the train stopped, and we were soon told that the rails had lost
power. I had to get a cab, and was lucky
to find one quickly, and it was still quite a distance. I got an “Anthony Bourdain Parts Unknown”
tour of The Bronx, almost the entire borough.

I got there on time, found the Conservatory enormously
crowded, but we got in about ten minutes after the scheduled time of 2:30. It takes about an hour to do the visit. There was a drag queen on stilts (actually female, I think, but not sure -- "somebody's gotta do it", like Mike Rowe).

The buildings are replicas of NYC landmarks,
including Penn Station and Yankee Stadium, made from natural plant
materials. The layout spreads on both
sides of the aisle, and the two halves come together after about 200 feet. But many of the rail loops are separate and
do not connect. On the “fringes” all the
rolling stock consists of street cars.
More conventional trains are in the middle. This is one of the largest exhibits I have
ever seen (although in 2010, there was an exhibit near Dulles Airport in
Virginia that was supposed to simulate 60 miles of track between two
cities). The style of the exhibit resembles that in Washington DC at the US Botanical Garden near the Capitol, but it is much larger. There is a certain "Middle Earth" look to it all. In fact, I don't think there are any trains in "Tolkien" as I recall, but there are in some of the dominions of Clive Barker's "Imajica", so that could motivate further attractions, maybe in Las Vegas or in Orlando. But this exhibit must be New York City's answer to those two resort cities.

There is also a separate exhibit with unusual cars in feudal
Japan.

After visiting the exhibit, a three-year old Canon Power
Shot started getting “lens errors”, which might have been provoked by very high
humidity in some of the exhibit. Fortunately,
all the pictures were OK.

(It's hard to put these pictures in logical order.)

Note the replica of the globe from the 1964 World's Fair in Flushing (which I attended in 1965).

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